North Korea launches a ballistic missile towards the Sea of Japan after threatening Tokyo with military action
The launch comes two days after the Japanese Government described Kim Jong-un's regime as a threat "more serious and imminent than ever" in its new Defense White Paper.
North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile towards the Sea of Japan on Thursday, a day after Pyongyang threatened to adopt “additional military options” in response to Tokyo's growing rearmament. The Joint Chiefs of Staff of South Korea detected the projectile at around 5:00 p.m. (local time, seven hours less in peninsular Spain) from the Wonsan area, on North Korea's eastern coast.
Seoul has reinforced surveillance in the possibility of new shots. For its part, the Japanese Ministry of Defense also confirmed the launch and indicated that it had not fallen either in Japanese territory or within its exclusive economic zone.
Translated by urgent.news from El Pais's report; automated translation may contain errors. Machine-written — it may contain errors, so check the original before relying on it.
